Wayback Machine

Quality:

Wayback Machine - digital archive founded by the Internet Archive. This website is the 97^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 90^th most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article "Wayback Machine" in English Wikipedia has 81 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 148 references and 19 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 90^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 97^th most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6952^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 7342^nd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4701^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8030^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article "Wayback Machine" was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (7342^nd place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (8030^th place).

Since the creation of article "Wayback Machine", its content was written by 679 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1382 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wayback Machine is on the 90^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 97^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 566900 times in English Wikipedia (4^th place) and cited 3722725 times in all languages (15^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #213 in October 2024
• Global: #553 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1166 in October 2024
• Global: #1473 in October 2024

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		80.9714
2	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		77.0738
3	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		63.4481
4	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		57.4115
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Wayback Machine		47.8534
6	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		44.004
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Wayback Machine		40.2772
8	Italian (it) Wayback Machine		38.0064
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		37.4261
10	Malay (ms) Wayback Machine		37.1058

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		12 465 106
2	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		1 435 615
3	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		1 195 609
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		767 933
5	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		683 614
6	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		678 715
7	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		512 157
8	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		220 581
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		211 373
10	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		186 382

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		85 100
2	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		32 675
3	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		8 398
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		8 062
5	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		6 320
6	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		6 275
7	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		4 828
8	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		4 062
9	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		2 541
10	Thai (th) เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน		1 912

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		679
2	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		56
3	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		50
4	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		48
5	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		47
6	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		46
7	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		28
8	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		28
9	Persian (fa) وی‌بک ماشین		26
10	French (fr) Wayback Machine		26

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		11
2	Simple English (simple) Wayback Machine		4
3	Thai (th) เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน		3
4	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		1
5	Greek (el) Wayback Machine		1
6	Basque (eu) Wayback Machine		1
7	Persian (fa) وی‌بک ماشین		1
8	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Wayback Machine		0
10	Belarusian (be) Wayback Machine		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information